Faculty Partner Research | Center for Families

June 27, 2023

Factor Structure of School Readiness Skills: Conceptual versus Statistical Distinctions

Robert J. Duncan, Jennifer K. Finders, David J. Purpura, Sara A. Schmitt

School readiness skills are a broad set of abilities that children develop in early childhood that support achievement once they enter formal schooling. Three components of school readiness skills are of focus in the current study: executive function (EF), language/literacy,...

June 21, 2023

Late Onset Personality Disorders in Mid-Life and Older Adults

Susan C. South

There is little research on personality disorder (PD) onset in older age. Many studies have shown that normative personality traits change across the life span, even into later life. This study aimed to investigate the onset of PDs in later...

June 19, 2023

Worry and Mindfulness Differentially Impact Symptom Burden Following Treatment Among Breast Cancer Survivors: Findings From a Randomized Crossover Trial

M. Rosie Shrout

Breast cancer survivors often experience many somatic and cognitive side effects resulting from their cancer diagnosis and treatment, including higher rates of pain, fatigue, and memory/concentration problems. Emotion regulation offers opportunities to either enhance or dampen physical health.

June 15, 2023

Longitudinal Associations of Adolescent Stress and Cortisol, Testosterone, and DHEA during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Kristine Marceau

The COVID-19 pandemic is a prolonged, chronic stressor. We examined longitudinal associations of adolescent-reported pandemic-related stressors and cortisol, dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), and testosterone, during the second and third waves of US case counts.

June 15, 2023

Associations of Relative Pubertal Timing and Pubertal Tempo with Body Mass Index in a Sample of Youth Adopted at Birth

Kristine Marceau

Most research on puberty has focused on pubertal timing and its correlates. Less research has examined how timing and tempo relate to each other despite how both relate to health outcomes. We examined timing (relative to same-age/sex-peers) and tempo with...

June 8, 2023

Touch to learn: Multisensory input supports word learning and processing

Infants experience language in rich multisensory environments. For example, they may first be exposed to the word applesauce while touching, tasting, smelling, and seeing applesauce. In three experiments using different methods we asked whether the number of distinct senses linked...

June 7, 2023

Use them or lose them: Are manipulatives needed to assess numeracy and geometry performance in preschool?

In two studies, we investigated whether using three-dimensional (3D) manipulatives during assessment aided performance on a variety of preschool mathematics tasks compared to pictorial representations.

May 29, 2023

Bedtime Routine Stability in the Context of Developmental Risk

Consistent bedtime routines are an important promoter of child sleep health. This is particularly true for children developing at elevated risk for sleep and developmental challenges. Consistent and calming bedtime routines are associated with fewer parent-reported night wakings, shorter sleep...

May 18, 2023

Two pathways in vocabulary development: Large-scale differences in noun and verb semantic structure

Do noun and verb semantic knowledge in 16–30-month-old children tend to be semantically isolated from one another or semantically interacting from the onset of vocabulary development? In children, evidence suggests that nouns and verbs also have semantic interrelationships, though the...

May 13, 2023

A Scoping Review of Household Factors Contributing to Dietary Quality and Food Security in Low Income Households with School-Age Children in the U.S.

The aim of this scoping review is to identify the contributing household factors to dietary quality and food security in U.S. households of school-aged children 5 to 19 years and synthesize the evidence around emergent themes for application to future...

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